Tarrama (Arabic: طرّامة, also known as Khirbet al-Tarramah) is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop with an elevation of 879 meters (2,884 ft) in the southern West Bank, part of the Hebron Governorate. Located just south of Dura, nearby localities include at-Tabaqa to the north, Fawwar to the east, Khursa to the west, and Deir Razih to the south. The village had a population of 642 in 2017.[1]
Its total land area is 210 dunams and the village is provided with electricity and telephone lines.[2]
History
Khirbet Tarrama has been suggested as a possible site of the "Jezreel" mentioned as a town in the territory of Judah in the Bible.[3]
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]
Ottoman era
In 1863, Victor Guérin visited.[5]
In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted of Khurbet Terrama: "This ruin, not on the map, was found by Guerin about half an hour north of Khurbet Deir Razi. It was on the top of a terraced hill, and contains the remains of an old fort, with caves cut in the rock, one of which is pierced with columbaria."[6]
^Guérin, 1869, p. 372: "nous atteignons le sommet d'une colline qui s'élève comme par gradins successifs et dont les terres sont soutenues par plusieurs murs d'appui. Un dernier mur d'enceinte, qui a été démoli, mais dont les traces sont reconnaissables, environnait jadis la plate-forme supérieure, où sont épars des amas de gros blocs disjoints, ayant appartenu à une assez puissante construction, presque entièrement détruite, qui semble avoir eu une destination militaire. On y remarque aussi plusieurs cavernes pratiquées dans le roc, une, entre autres, dont les parois sônt percées intérieurement d'une foule de petites niches semblables à des trous de pigeonnier. Ces ruines me sont désignées sous le nom de Khirbet Terrama."
